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Dr. Emerson's little book is another addition to the Mind and Health Series, edited by H. Addington Bruce, and marks another step in the popularizing of wholesome ideas regarding mental illness and clearing up the thinking of the average person about many vague concepts, in this case specifically that of nervousness.
Dr. Emerson has written an entertaining little book which cannot fail to be useful to the lay reader who is suffering from nervousness. Every psychoanalyst appreciates how these sufferers have failed to get help because nowhere have they found an understanding of their sufferings. This book will demonstrate to the nervous sufferer that there is a body of information existing which serves to make his suffering understandable and which offers the hope of relief. The dominant note of the book throughout is service, which at this particular time in the history of the world, when everything seems to be in a state of chaos, is particularly wholesome.
It is of especial interest to note that the book is dedicated to Dr. James Jackson Putnam, whose death must have occurred while its pages were in press. Dr. Putnam was among the foremost in this country to advocate the principles which Dr. Emerson is endeavoring to popularize. It is gratifying at this time, when so many of his friends are saddened by his death, to pick up a book which endeavors to popularize the work to which he gave the major portion of his interests in the latter part of his life and to find it dedicated to him.
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